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2004 YUKON QUEST NEWS CLIPPINGS

3/2/4: MSN Breaking Sports Video | Dogsled Multimedia Archives
2/27/4: Nine more mushers finish Yukon Quest
2/25/4: Gatt wins YQ for third time, but probably won't be back
2/24/4: Gatt breaks record in YQ win
2/23/4: Kleedehn finishes race in hospital
2/22/4: Gatt holds lead in Quest
2/17/4: Korta snags YQ 250 Title - "Jon Korta was smiling Monday morning after crossing the finish line and cracking jokes about how he was going to pick up the prizes for the first- and last-place finish, not to mention the sportsman and humanitarian awards."
2/16/4: Streer leads Quest; Kleedhen scratches after breaking leg
2/15/4: Mild weather marks start of Yukon Quest
2/12/4: Spring sports season heats up - "This will be the fifth running of the Quest 250 since 2000, when it was created as another qualifying race for mushers interested in entering the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest or the Iditarod. But since then it has become more of a "multipurpose race"
2/11/4: Holdmann assembles team on old-timers for Yukon Quest - "he expects to take the quickest athletes they own in his attempt to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race next month. But he'd almost trade it all in for the trip Holdmann will be starting Saturday in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. The Fox musher has rounded up all the old-timers and over-the-hill club members in the yard and assembled them for an "experiment" on the 1,000-mile run from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon."
2/8/4: DEUTSCHE YUKON QUEST SITE TRANSLATED
2/4/4: Musher to continue Quest despite fire - DNM "Eric Butcher has decided to press on with his first attempt at the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race despite losing his house in a fire last month."
1/31/4: BC sprint racer wins Teton sled dog race
1/26/4: Tom Benson: Prepping for the Quest - DN-M "Last week, the Quest was granted a permit that would allow beef to cross the border in the drop bags only, meaning mushers couldn't drive it over the border themselves."
1/13/4: Mad cow scare impacts Yukon Quest mushers - JUN "As it stands now, mushers will be allowed to use dry dog food that contains no beef products, as well as other nonbeef foods such as chicken and turkey. Nervous mushers are keeping their fingers crossed that they will be able to use beef during the race. "I have to run it with beef," Two Rivers musher Abbie West said.
1/9/4: Quest lobbies for pet food exemption
1/8/4: Swingley gains ground in race "Today was a really tough run with the new snow and hilly terrain," said the 21-year-old musher from Fort Nelson, British Columbia."
1/3/4: US Meat Banned From Yukon Quest | Wired - "Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race this week notified mushers that Canada will not allow dog food containing the meat products to cross the border because of health concerns."

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